pegatron

…

Apple Inc. partners Foxconn Technology Group and Pegatron Corp. included Southeast Asia in their expansion…

Image Source : FILE Apple China, which is still the key Apple supplier, may lose its tag as the leading iPhone manufacturer as Apple looks at India and Vietnam to bolster its supply chain, the media reported on Saturday. ALSO READ: Apple quietly launches new audiobook catalogue narrated by AI   The largest Apple supplier Foxconn has "quietly finalised plans" to…

Apple Inc. exported more than $2.5 billion of iPhones from India from April to December, nearly twice the previous fiscal year’s total, underscoring how the US tech giant is accelerating a shift from China with geopolitical tensions on the rise. Foxconn Technology Group and Wistron Corp. have each shipped more than $1 billion of Apple’s marquee devices abroad in the first nine months of the fiscal year ending March 2023, people familiar with the matter said. Pegatron Corp., another major contract manufacturer for Apple,…

Image Source : FILE Apple Apple reportedly failed to launch a 'dedicated' application for classical music in 2022, post acquiring classical music service Primephonic. The tech giant stated that it planned to release a ‘dedicated’ classical music application in 2022, but could not launchh because without any specific reason given. ALSO READ: ‘Amazon Prime Air’ drone…

Indian conglomerate Tata Group-owned Infiniti Retail, which runs the Croma chain of stores, plans to open 100 stores across the country that will only sell Apple products, the Economic Times newspaper reported on Monday, citing two people aware of the matter.Last month, it was reported that the group was in talks to buy Wistron's only manufacturing facility in India for up to Rs. 5,000 crore, citing people familiar with the discussions.If it fails to strike a deal to buy the facility in the southern Indian state of…

Apple's Taiwanese contract manufacturer Pegatron has begun assembling the company's latest iPhone 14 model in India.That move makes Pegatron the second Apple supplier to produce the iPhone 14 in the country, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg News, declining to be identified as the manufacturing plan is not public.It comes at a time when Apple's key iPhone Pro manufacturing hub in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou -- operated by Foxconn -- was placed under an abrupt Covid-19 lockdown by authorities. That situation…

China ordered an industrial park that houses an iPhone factory belonging to Foxconn to enter a seven-day lockdown, in a move set to intensify pressure on the Apple supplier as it scrambles to quell worker discontent at the base. The Zhengzhou Airport Economy Zone in central China said it would impose "silent management" measures with immediate effect, including barring all residents from going out and only allowing approved vehicles on roads within that area. The curbs will last until November 9, it said. The lockdown…

iPhone 14 shipments might get delayed potentially causing postponement of the September launch event as China has reportedly started strictly enforcing a rule that Taiwanese-made parts must be labelled correctly. Under this policy, Chinese officials can delay and even reject shipments. The strictness follows US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi and a congressional delegation's visit to Taiwan. It is to be noted that Apple outsources the chip manufacturing to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited…

Apple Inc has asked suppliers to ensure that shipments from Taiwan to China comply with the latter's customs regulations to avoid them from being held for scrutiny, according to a Nikkei report on Friday. Sino-U.S. trade tensions have escalated following U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi and a congressional delegation's visit to Taiwan. The iPhone maker told suppliers that China had started enforcing a long-standing rule that Taiwanese-made parts and components must be labeled as made either in "Taiwan,…